Fate. Tap. Tap. A stripling, blind, with a tapping cane came taptaptapping by Daly's window exactly where a mermaid hair all streaming (but he couldn't see) blew whiffs of a mermaid (blind couldn't), mermaid, coolest whiff of all. Bloom seen a gallant pictured hero in Lionel Marks's window. The circumstances of borrowing, and how it arrived to necessarily mean "hero" in Slavic, remain unclear. Pom. Wallop.